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Napoleon and the nose on the Sphinx

Tony McMahon3 months ago2 months ago012 mins

The new Ridley Scott movie on Napoleon will revive the idea that his troops shot the nose off the Sphinx as Tony McMahon investigates

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Queen Cleopatra – Netflix provokes a storm!

Tony McMahon5 months ago5 months ago018 mins

Netflix has provoked a storm over its new drama documentary series, Queen Cleopatra. In a second article, Tony McMahon answers the critics.

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Cleopatra – the fury over her ethnicity

Tony McMahon5 months ago5 months ago013 mins

The Netflix drama series Queen Cleopatra has caused a storm over the casting of a black actor but people to need calm down over Cleo’s alleged ethnicity

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Abusing the Mummies of Ancient Egypt

Tony McMahon10 months ago10 months ago011 mins

Mummies from Ancient Egypt weren’t just unwrapped in the past but featured in ballets, dinner parties, and abused in many ways

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Was Tutankhamun buried in the tomb of a queen?

Tony McMahon2 years ago2 years ago17 mins

Some believe that the tomb of Tutankhamun was intended for a royal queen hence the feminine imagery that abounds within

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Howard Carter – discoverer of Tutankhamun

Tony McMahon2 years ago2 years ago010 mins

Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became global celebrities on discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun – though Carter wasn’t universally popular

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Centenary of the Tutankhamun discovery!

Tony McMahon2 years ago2 years ago16 mins

2022 will be a hundred years since the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun and two hundred years since the Rosetta Stone was deciphered as Tony McMahon reports

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Toppling statues and renaming streets – nothing new

Tony McMahon3 years ago3 years ago26 mins

There is a long history of toppling statues and renaming streets and cities and historian Tony McMahon thinks we should vex a lot less about this

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Grave robbers through the centuries

Tony McMahon3 years ago3 years ago18 mins

Grave robbers have been desecrating tombs throughout history but as Tony McMahon discovers it’s often for very different reasons

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Was Moses the Pharaoh Akhenaten?

Tony McMahon4 years ago3 years ago34 mins

Tony McMahon went to view 3,000 year old objects made under the Pharaoh Akhenaten that now cannot be viewed because of the Coronavirus

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